A Day to Celebrate

Papertrey May Blog Hop Challenge

This month's yummy inspiration print from irtsya

and now for my interpretation for this month's PTI Blog Hop

I misted my stamps after inking to get a softer, water colored look.

While the supplies were out, I made another card, same design.

Card #2 uses different colors but the same stamp and

die sets with paint chips die cut for the flowers and bow.

PTI Products unless noted otherwise:

Stamps: Beautiful Berries: Spring,  Friendship Jar Flowers, Make It Market: Sunshine & Rainbows (black floral center) Dies: Bells & Boughs, Friendship Jar Fillers, Noted: Scalloped Vertical  Inks: Distress-abandoned coral, picked raspberry, worn lipstick; Hero Arts Chalkboard Black, Soft Violet, Stone Wash; Ranger Cloud Blue  Paper: PTI Soft Stone, Ranger water color

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Zappy Birthday

Create Along With Us: May 2017

 Nichole's card

When I saw this card from Nichole Heady on day 5 of the May release, I thought of my  

PTI Triangle Cover Plate. It provided the inspiration for my 7 year-old grandson Luca's 

birthday card. He's a quirky boy, no flowers for him!

PTI dies: Triangle Cover Plate, Zappy Birthday

Stamp: Zappy Birthday; Copic markers

Luca,  May 2017

Linking this to: Create Along With Us 

Three cards - Love you, hello and Celebrate

Make It Monday #284: Background Stamping with Sentiment Stamps

Three more cards for May events!! A bonus to use previously

 stamped die cuts and a PTI patterned paper set in making them.

PTI Stamps: Tulip Time, Wonderful Words: thank you

PTI Dies: Inspired: Love, Noted: Scalloped A2, Tulip Time

PTI Stamps: Butterfly Hope, Fresh Bouquet

PTI Dies: Fresh Bouquet, Mix & Mat: Flourishes, Tiny Tags

PTI Stamps: Layered Banner Banter, Tulip Time

PTI Dies: Sentiment Splits: Curved Vertical, Tulip Time

PTI pattern paper, Baker's twine, Wink of Stella

Celebrate

Make It Monday #282: Stenciled Watercolor Backgrounds

Simon Says Stamp: Wednesday Challenge

Card Menu:

Stencil: Woodblock Prints  Stamps: Gran's Garden, Layered Banner Banter

Dies: Gran's Garden, Sentiment Splits: Curve Vertical   Inks: Distress Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers, 
Salty Ocean, and Tumbled Glass; Hero Arts: Buttercup, Green Hills, Pool;  PTI: Saffron Spice

Paper: Saffron Spice cardstock and Staples White 120 lb. 

Linked to: capture the moment

Betsy used a Woodblock Prints stencil as her guide for a demo card in this week's MIM. 

I used a different stencil from the same set, several Distress Inks and a water brush to 

paint my design on watercolor paper. After it dried, the panel was die cut and mounted

directly to a saffron spice card. It was embellished with several flowers from 

Gran's Garden. I must confess to casing a similar card by Dawn McVey.

But wait, I can't waste the wet ink on top of my stencil!!  I laid a stitched panel 

of white card stock on the wet stencil and got a funky negative image as a result.

Two butterfly die-cuts mounted with foam tape on a stitched gold vellum rectangle
and finished with a simple sentiment made a second card!

Card Menu:
Stencil: PTI Woodblock Prints; PTI Stamps: Bold Bouquet (older anniversary set) & Butterfly Hope
Inks: Distress Salty Ocean, HA Buttercup & Pool; Dies: PTI Butterfly Hope, SSS Stitched Rectangles;
Paper: PTI New Leaf,  Staples White 120 lb & gold vellum from stash

Linked to: SSS: Anything Goes

Three Spring Cards

Papertrey April Blog Hop Challenge

Our inspiration is from the art galleries of  Megan Carter 

Interpretation #1

simple stamping

PTI Stamps: Ruby Rose, Songbirds

Die: Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles

Interpretation #2

die-cuts and embellishments

PTI Stamps: Brushed Blooms, Ruby Rose, Songbirds, Spring Woods

PTI Dies: Ruby Rose, Noted: Scalloped A2 Vertical

Interpretation #3

abstract stamping

PTI Stamps: Butterfly Hope, Circle Scribbles, Spring Woods

Die: SSS Stitched Rectangles

This card is a bit smaller at 4" x 5"

I'm off to see three plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival today and tomorrow.
Can't wait to see all of the amazing cards the hop will reveal today!.

Linked to: PTI April Blog Hop

BE brave, kind, happy, true, bold

Make It Monday: #281
Patterns Behind Die-Cut Windows

Oh, the possibilities in die-cutting a window and showing-off a patterned background.

My inspiration is from Dawn McVey on the recent MIM challenge. I made my window
with a circle die on the dotted paper. To make a flat card for easy mailing, I adhered the
panel directly to a yellow card rather than foam to make a window. Two wreath die-cuts,
 one yellow and the other dark bronze were glued together to frame the circle window.
A pattern of words and dots from the "Be" stamp set were stamped on the yellow card
 front. The inside sentiment is "Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful" from Choose Joy.

Stamps: PTI Be, Choose Joy (inside)

Dies: PTI Rustic Wreath, Spellbinders Standard Circles

Linked to: capture the moment

some bunny loves you

PTI Make It Monday #280
Stamping Outside of the Box

Lexi's video at PTI's Make It Monday challenge inspired today's spring card.

Papertrey Stamps & Dies

Bunny Basket & Mat Stack 3

I stamped the bunny in Hero Arts Soft Lilac on pattern paper and added purple Stickles eyes. The grass is half of a circle, trimmed with Martha Stewart fringe scissors and decorated with green Stickles. I propped up the bunny ears with foam adhesive and placed the "basket" on a couple of scored lines. Thanks, Lexi, for a fun challenge!

Linked at: Make It Monday